Even as transportation improvements accelerated through the twentieth century, the railroad still best symbolized the ability of mechanized invention to conquer distance; electric trains continue to epitomize this cultural belief in such technological...

HO scale model railroad. A scale model of Berlin's Bahnhof Zoo at the LOXX Berlin model railway. A JAPAN HOe scale model railroad, here. Comparison of the sizes of model train scales. One of the smallest (Z scale, 1:220) placed on the buffer bar of one...